{"id":913,"date":"2016-07-23T04:13:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T04:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=913"},"modified":"2017-09-26T04:22:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T04:22:10","slug":"this-wont-get-many-likes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"This Won&#8217;t Get Many Likes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_895\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-895\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-895\" src=\"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016_0723_TennisSigns_1566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016_0723_TennisSigns_1566.jpg 800w, http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016_0723_TennisSigns_1566-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LGT Challenger (Binghamton, NY) &#8211; With crowds this small, it&#8217;s always interesting that they have such tight media rules.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-914 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2016_0723_TennisSigns_1567_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2016_0723_TennisSigns_1567_sm.jpg 195w, http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2016_0723_TennisSigns_1567_sm-130x300.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/binghamtonchallenger.com\/\">Levene Gouldin &amp; Thompson Tennis Challenger<\/a> is happening this week. \u00a0The tournament fits in as a minor league level event. That means that the best players may be ranked in the 100&#8217;s and many are breaking playing\u00a0their\u00a0first tournaments. \u00a0Their claim to fame is that an unknown Andy Murray won in 2005 before going on to win the 2012 US Open and then Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016, so you never know if you are seeing a future star.<\/p>\n<p>What caught my eye was first that there were so few people on this Saturday. Granted it was not the finals and it was a miserable 85 degrees and 90+% humidity.<\/p>\n<p>Next were the signs that basically cut down on all internet fun even though it certainly was needed to help stir up some publicity. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure the reason goes back to some lawyers making sure that no one tries to livecast\u00a0from the US Open, but this event is a little off that track and should actually encourage this these tournaments to be experimental platforms for broadcasting (text or video) from a live event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Levene Gouldin &amp; Thompson Tennis Challenger is happening this week. \u00a0The tournament fits in as a minor league level event. That means that the best players may be ranked in the 100&#8217;s and many are breaking playing\u00a0their\u00a0first tournaments. \u00a0Their claim to fame is that an unknown Andy Murray won in 2005 before going on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[160,3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}